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It's especially bizzare that it's a 4 year old laptop with dying battery and Windows 10.
Was it a Window thing or a hardware manufacturer thing? Either way it was very strange
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And half of software engineers (the other half have Linux laptops). I only use Windows as a game launcher (and I’m still on Windows 10), I don’t understand why anyone would need it anymore except games.
CAD software
Really i Don't like windows but the text editor or the official tools like powerpoint, mas word, Excel more good than LibreOffice. I use it for my paper because my collage.
For casual use Google is fine, otherwise use LaTeX
Yesterday on my laptop a survey popped up in tray. "Would you recommend this computer to other people?". What the hell do you mean? I wouldn't recommend it to other people. They can't have it. It's mine! It's especially bizzare that it's a 4 year old laptop with dying battery and Windows 10. Was it a Window thing or a hardware manufacturer thing? Either way it was very strange
> Linux Respects Its Users Maybe I'm just ranting, but Ubuntu seems to be by far the most common distro for Windows users, and they're definitely not perfect in this respect. I've been running Linux as my main OS for about 20 years and I can't rid myself of snaps. Synaptic will show that the package provided by Mozilla is the latest version and the snap is the installed version. If I reinstall, it goes back to the Mo…
Microsoft is a publicly traded, for-profit company.
Canonical Ltd (Ubuntu) is a privately held, for-profit company.
The Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization.
Software in the Public Interest (Debian) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
See the pattern?
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And half of software engineers (the other half have Linux laptops). I only use Windows as a game launcher (and I’m still on Windows 10), I don’t understand why anyone would need it anymore except games.
Linux requires you give up on cutting edge hardware. Basically there's no alternative to the Surface Pro or the Asus' Z13 (or even X13), or Lenovo's dual screen or tablet lines that works with Linux. Incidentally these form factors also doesn't come to macs either.
About a year ago I dumped Windows from my personal PC for good. I ran a Linux desktop at work for a decade, but my Steam collection get me with at least a bit of a tether to Microsoft. But Valve finally made Linux gaming a reality. I hope more people can make the switch someday because I'm quite happy with the system (Pop!_OS is my distro of choice these days).
Photo editing is my last holdout. And a European-compatible banking software. Everything else works well on Linux. Gaming included. I've run Linux many years, in fact. But Capture One and Lightroom are not available over there, which is what draws me back to MacOS. Of course I could just use darktable. Have done that for several years. But at the end of the day, I just prefer Capture One, and that's enough reason for…
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My last version of Windows was 7. After that I used a MacBook for work for a few years, and I somewhat missed windows for gaming (but mainly used a PS4 during that time so I got by). Then, a few years ago, I switched exclusively to Linux (I’ve usually had a dual boot or a second machine running Linux, but it was rarely my exclusive OS), and haven’t looked back. I’ve since also got a Steam Deck which has completely re…
Would not say that Linux gaming works as well as Windows gaming. Plenty of things won't work in Proton, at least not out of the box, and you're kinda restricted to AMD GPUs. That's fine cause I don't play video games anymore, but people who really care about that will put up with a lot of MS's BS. AoE2:DE is one example of incompatibility. Simple game (by modern standards) with no advanced anticheat.
It's been a few months since I played but the only thing that doesn't work is Xbox login. I needed to download a DLL to get multiplayer working, which I agree isn't really userfriendly, but compared to the early Wine days Proton is a walk in the park.
What I do miss a bit is Capturage, apparently it's really hard to make it work in Proton.
I can't even remove 'Recommended' from the start menu, not even on a Pro for Workstations. Every time I search on the start menu there is a web search, impossible to turn off. How is that acceptable? I install Edge Beta to test something, and the I uninstall it. All of the sudden my search provider in my normal Edge is reset. And the nagging everywhere. No I don't want 'back-up' my files (OneDrive is not backup, it's…
> Every time I search on the start menu there is a web search, impossible to turn off. How is that acceptable? I'm not sure if it works on Win11, but this was used to disable it in Win10: REG ADD HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search /v BingSearchEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f REG ADD HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search /v CortanaConsent /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
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Why do you need multiple computers when you can have multiboot and use one computer to run different OSes?
Cause it's not fun having to reboot every time you want to run a Windows program, especially if it means dealing with Windows nagging.
Put all your fun things on one OS (or user account), and all your business stuff on another (possibly blocking distractions via hosts or firewall rules); and you've added a bunch of friction to switching from work to play. Not that it can't be done, but it needs to be a deliberate choice and you can't just bounce between them.